Gareth Paddison

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Gareth Paddison
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Paddison at the 2008 European Masters
Personal information
Born (1980-05-13) 13 May 1980 (age 41)
Wellington, New Zealand
Height6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
Weight163 lb (74 kg; 11.6 st)
Nationality New Zealand
Career
Turned professional2001
Current tour(s)PGA Tour of Australasia
Former tour(s)European Tour
Challenge Tour
OneAsia Tour
Asian Tour
Professional wins13
Number of wins by tour
PGA Tour of Australasia4
Challenge Tour1
Other8

Gareth Paddison (born 13 May 1980) is a New Zealand professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour of Australasia.

Amateur career[]

Paddison won the New Zealand Amateur Stroke Play Championship and the Queensland Amateur Championship 1999 and the Canadian Amateur Championship in 2001. He also represented New Zealand at the 2000 Eisenhower Trophy.

Professional career[]

Paddison turned professional in 2001. He was named the Norman Von Nida Australasian PGA Tour Rookie of the Year in 2002 after he won the Scenic Circle Hotels Dunedin Classic. He played on the Challenge Tour from 2002 to 2007. In 2002 he finished in third at the Izki Challenge de España. In 2004 he won the Victorian Open on the Von Nida Tour while finishing in a tie for second at the Skandia PGA Open on the Challenge Tour. He picked up his first win on the Challenge Tour in 2007 at the Open des Volcans. He earned his European Tour card for 2008 by going through qualifying school but he wasn't able to retain his card even though he recorded five top-25 finishes, and returned to the Challenge tour for 2009.

From 2010 Paddison played mostly on the PGA Tour of Australasia and the OneAsia tour. He won three tier-2 events on the Australasian Tour, the Queensland PGA Championship in 2011 and the Victorian PGA Championship in 2012 and 2014. His best finish on the OneAsia tour was when he was a runner-up in the 2015 GS Caltex Maekyung Open in Korea. He played on the Asian Tour in 2018, having secured a place through Q-school.[1] He has won 5 times on the Charles Tour and won the Fiji Open in 2016.

Personal life[]

His father, Garry, played for the New Zealand national football team in the 1970s.

Amateur wins[]

Professional wins (13)[]

PGA Tour of Australasia wins (4)[]

No. Date Tournament Winning score Margin of
victory 		Runner(s)-up
1 24 Mar 2002 Scenic Circle Hotels Dunedin Classic −17 (66-69-68-64=267) 3 strokes Australia
2 27 Feb 2011 Cellarbrations Queensland PGA Championship −18 (67-67-62-66=262) 2 strokes Australia Terry Pilkadaris, Australia Kieran Pratt
3 19 Feb 2012 Adroit Insurance Group Victorian PGA Championship −7 (67-69-67-74=277) 1 stroke Australia
4 9 Feb 2014 Lexus of Blackburn Victorian PGA Championship (2) −16 (67-68-66-71=272) 1 stroke New Zealand Michael Hendry

Challenge Tour wins (1)[]

No. Date Tournament Winning score Margin of
victory		 Runner-up
1 8 Jul 2007 AGF-Allianz Open des Volcans -
Challenge de France 		−11 (70-69-68-66=273) 6 strokes Sweden Leif Westerberg

Von Nida Tour wins (1)[]

No. Date Tournament Winning score Margin of
victory 		Runners-up
1 25 Jan 2004 Victorian Open −12 (71-66-67=204) 5 strokes Australia Richard Green, Australia Paul Sheehan

Charles Tour wins (5)[]

No. Date Tournament Winning score Margin of
victory		 Runner(s)-up
1 19 Sep 2010 −8 (74-67-67-72=280) 5 strokes New Zealand (a),New Zealand
2 26 Apr 2015 −16 (66-66-66-66=264) 4 strokes New Zealand (a)
3 2 Apr 2017 (2) −18 (66-64-64-68=262) Playoff New Zealand Michael Hendry
4 9 Apr 2017 −15 (64-69-69-71=273) 5 strokes New Zealand Mark Brown
5 15 Apr 2018 (2) −12 (70-67-71-68=276) Playoff New Zealand

Other wins (2)[]

  • 2000 Waikato Strokeplay Championship[citation needed]
  • 2016 Fiji Open

Team appearances[]

Amateur

  • Nomura Cup (representing New Zealand): 1999
  • Eisenhower Trophy (representing New Zealand): 2000
  • Four Nations Cup (representing New Zealand): 2001
  • Southern Cross Cup (representing New Zealand): 2001

Professional

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ "Ben Campbell and Gareth Paddison secure Asian Tour Cards for 2018". New Zealand Golf. 15 January 2018.

External links[]

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